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Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook shared info about extremist ban with some news outlets before the ban was in place, letting Alex Jones and others redirect followers to other platforms — - Facebook is banning a bunch of far-right figures from its apps, including Alex Jones. — But the company briefed journalists … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets — Wireless giant seeks buyer for social-media service that has lost ground to Facebook — Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking a buyer for blogging website Tumblr …
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BuzzFeed News, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Forbes, Mashable, Boing Boing, and Seeking Alpha
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| Bloomberg: |
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap — The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
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Business Insider, GeekWire, Reuters, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Loop
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| Satyajit Sinha / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments up 48% YoY in Q1 2019: Apple Watch grew 49% YoY for a 35.8% market share, followed by Samsung's 127% YoY growth for an 11% share — Top nine brands contribute to 75% of the market shipment. Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei grew exponentially in Q1 2019| Human Rights Watch: |
Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities — ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
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| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee — Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company …
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New York Times, CNET, TechSpot, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, The Verge, IT PRO, Business Insider, MediaNama, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, and Geek News Central
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads, which encourage the listener to say a command to take action on the ad's content, in a limited test in the US — Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company's earnings call with investors.
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Marketing Land, Engadget, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data to either three or 18 months — Last August, the Associated Press reported that various Google apps store the timestamped locations of the devices on which they're installed.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
At F8, Facebook emphasized products and features it aspires to become dominant tomorrow, but despite much talk, didn't actually launch any new privacy features — Zuckerberg gets aspirational — In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having … | Krista Gmelich / Bloomberg: |
Research: since Airbnb's 2008 launch, $14.6B has been invested in ~1,800 digital travel startups, many of them filling the gaps Airbnb can't or won't address — Money has been pouring into digital travel startups that help keep the noise low and the sheets crisp
Tweets: @noiseawaredotio and @kgmelich
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile division continues its slide into irrelevance with Q1 loss of $181M on sales of just $1.34B, down 30% YoY and its lowest in at least eight years — LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance.
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LG Newsroom, XDA Developers, ZDNet, TechSpot, Android Authority, Android Police, and Gizchina
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Blockchain Service, a fully managed service meant to help businesses build applications on top of blockchain technology — Microsoft didn't rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year …
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Microsoft, CoinDesk, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, GitHub, OnMSFT.com, and Hacker Noon
| Matt Perez / Forbes: |
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn't close to full launch after seven years of development — It's October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of Star Citizen …
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PC Games Insider. Tweets: @chetfaliszek, @mathewi, @kezamacdonald, @mtrc, @killyourfm, @forbes, @skillupyt, @tha_rami, @mattryanperez, @forbes, and @spaceshipsporn. Thanks:@helenaspopkin
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Alphabet tells US House panel it spends hundreds of millions annually on content review, has manually reviewed 1M+ suspected terrorist videos on YouTube in Q1 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google unit told a U.S. House panel it annually spends hundreds of millions of dollars …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Sense, a contractor engagement and communication platform, raises $13.5M Series B led by GV with participation from Accel, bringing total raised to $23.5M — The rise of the “gig economy” has created a slew of billion-dollar companies eager to capitalize on the growth of smartphones and ubiquitous connectivity.
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Sense Blog and Crunchbase News
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Colorado-based Red Canary raises $34M led by Summit Partners, bringing its total raised to $48.9M, for its suite of cloud-based threat detection services — Red Canary, a five-year-old Denver, Colorado-based company developing cloud-based security services, today announced that it's secured $34 million …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Pluralsight, an IT training and certification platform, will acquire GitPrime, an analytics and productivity tool for developer teams, for $170M — Pluralsight, an online training platform focusing on subjects like web development, IT certification, and security training … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China — - CEO points to ongoing soft demand in biggest market for phones — Apple licensing terms will be ‘consistent’ with program
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Qualcomm Investor Relations, VentureBeat, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Thurrott, Cult of Mac, Engadget, and ZDNet. Tweets: @zerohedge
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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @fosspatents, @business, and @bzamayo
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500, out later this year, says Unreal Engine 4 support for HoloLens 2 will be available by the end of May — Available later this year — Microsoft is launching a developer edition of the company's HoloLens 2 headset today.
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PCWorld, GeekWire, Windows Central, The Register, TechCrunch, and Engadget. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches two new open source AI tools: BoTorch, based on PyTorch, for Bayesian library optimization and Ax, a platform for managing AI experiments — At its F8 developer conference, Facebook today launched Ax and BoTorch, two new open-source AI tools.
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CNN, VentureBeat, Facebook, Axios, Facebook AI, Fast Company, and CNET
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